Boy'5 Recollection of 
the War 



BY 



W. O. HART 



Reprinted from Publications of the /Mississippi 
Historical Society -Vol. XII. 






A BOY'S RECOLLECTION 
OF THE WAR 



A BOY'S RECOLLECTION OF THE WAR. 
By W. O. Hart.i 

In 1861, when the war broke out, I was almost four years of 
age, and, therefore, nearly eight years of age when the war 
ended, but I have a very vivid recollection of many incidents 
happening in the meantime, including many in the State of 
Mississippi. 

My father, Toby Hart, enHsted in the early part of the war 
and was sent for service to the forts below the city of New 
Orleans. But having been an employer of large numbers of 
men, he chafed under the restraint of being in a subordinate 
position. Sometime thereafter, he obtained a leave of absence to 
return to the city, where he organized a company, of which he 
became captain. It was known afterwards as "Company E, 
Eighth Louisiana Battalion of Heavy Artillery." I remember 
distinctly when he came home and stated that he was going to 
organize a company, but I have no recollection of when he left 
the city. 

My mother and I left, on what I was told, was the last train 
that went out of the city over what was then known as the 
Jackson railroad, now a part of the Illinois Central. This train 
left after General Butler had entered the city. The only other 
circumstance I remember in connection with this event, was that 



^William Octave Hart, born in New Orleans, August 19, 1857. He is 
the only child of Toby Hart and Anna Hussey. Mrs. Hart, his wife, 
was a native of New Orleans, and her parents natives of Ireland, where 
the family lived for many yeails. 

Toby Hart was the eldest'- sen of William R. Hart. He was born at 
Newberry, South Carolina; . August 29, 1835, and died on December 27, 
1907. William R. Hart was born in New York city in 1810, and was the 
eldest son of William Hart, a native of England, who served in the 
Revolutionary War on the British side, but after the war remained in 
New York city and became an American citizen. The mother of Toby 
Hart was Miss Harriet Carter, of Washington city, who died in New 
Orleans at the age of twenty-eight. — Editor. 

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A Boy's Recollection of the War — Hart. 149 

I heard it said that Butler had stated he intended to hang 
Mumford for tearing down the United States flag from the 
Mint, where it had been placed by order of Admiral Farragut. 
I do not remember anything about the arrival of the Federal 
fleet, nor do I remember anything about Mumford's tearing 
down the flag, until I heard of the threat made by General Butler. 

The train we were on stopped at Camp Moore, where my 
father was temporarily stationed, and at different times we 
stayed at Brookhaven, Jackson and Meridian. At the first named 
place, I remember receiving from some one, the first toy books 
I ever saw, being the story of Mother Hubbard and the story 
of Cock Robin, and I kept them and prized them until, from 
being so frequently used and shown to my little friends, they 
were worn out. 

Meridian, as I remember it at that time, was a place with a 
few log cabins, in one of which we lived for a few days. I think 
it was at Jackson, that I saw men riding by in wagons, whom I 
was told were deserters being taken out somewhere to be shot. 
I also recall some very doleful music that was played as they 
went along, part of which, I think, I heard at one of the per- 
formances of the Clansman in New Orleans, a few years ago. 
We finally reached Enterprise, Mississippi, where, with other 
ofiicers' families, we were located in an abandoned schoolhouse. 
This building was so large that tents were put in it for sleeping 
quarters. 

My father was there with his command, and there were a great 
many other soldiers. It was here that I saw baseball played for 
the first time. My father, who had been an active amateur 
baseball player in New Orleans organized two teams, which 
played in the large grounds near the schoolhouse. I think it was 
while there that we made a trip to Cooper's Wells, where one 
day was spent in enjoyment. But, suddenly, I was told that an 
order had come for everybody to go to Vicksburg. Just before 
starting, there was a grand ball given in the schoolhouse, and I 
was allowed to stay up and see the dancing and wait for supper. 
I remember distinctly the privates and others looking through 
the windows and other openings at the officers and ladies at 
the supper table. Finally, when these had finished, the others 



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were allowed to come in, and there was plenty for all. As in the 
case of the great ball at Waterloo, the night before the great 
battle, "There was a sound of revelry by night," and everybody 
was gay and happy because the sound of war had not yet reached 
that place. There was plenty of music, and the leader of one 
of the bands, after the war, settled in Gainesville, Alabama, 
where we then lived, as I will state further on. A member of 
the band was a Mr. Sinclair, whom my father had known in 
New Orleans before the war, and whom I saw after the sur- 
render in New Orleans, as a member of a stock company which 
was playing in the old St. Charles Theatre. Among the members 
of my father's command was Mr. H. N. Ogden, who was second 
lieutenant, I think. He afterwards became attorney general of 
Louisiana. 

At Vicksburg, my mother and I occupied a tent on one of the 
hills, and I remember that we often saw the shells explode, 
though we were too far away to be in danger. My father's com- 
mand planted the first gun at Vicksburg, at a point now marked 
by an iron tablet, erected by the United States government. This 
place is below the city and near one of the railroad freight 
depots. 

In 1909, just before the Confederate Reunion at Memphis, 
I visited Vicksburg, to arrange for the visit of Camp Beaure- 
gard, No. 130, United Sons of Confederate Veterans of New 
Orleans, of which I was then commandant, to attend the exer- 
cises held in connection with the unveiling of the monument 
to General Stephen D. Lee. As Captain W. T. Rigby, superin- 
tendent of the military park, drove me through the park, I noticed 
that though Mississippi, and other States, had small monuments or 
markers placed where their commands had been located during 
the Vicksburg campaign, Louisiana had none. I thereupon sug- 
gested to Captain Rigby that if the war department had no objec- 
tion, I would erect a small monument to my father's command. 
Permission was subsequently given, and the monument was 
erected and put in place by the superintendent. This was the 
first monument erected in the park by a private individual. Sub- 
sequently, through the efforts of Captain Rigby and Captain 
Lewis Guion, of New Orleans, who succeeded General Lee on 



A Boy's Recollection of the War — Hart. 151 

the commission, and Col, A. L. Slack, of Tallulah, Louisiana, 
who had been in the Vicksburg campaign, all the Louisiana com- 
mands which took part in the campaign are now commemorated 
by small monuments given by individuals, or built from a fund 
subscribed by private parties and by appropriations of the city 
of New Orleans and the police juries of Louisiana. 

My father was suddenly ordered away from Vicksburg to 
Selma, on some special service, and, therefore, did not surrender 
to Grant. We traveled very slowly across the country in an 
ox wagon, and it took us several weeks to get to our destination. 
I remember that we passed through one abandoned town, I think 
it was either Mount Carmel or Monticello, where there was not 
a person living, and the only living things we saw in the place 
were some goats. The men had gone to the war and the women 
and children were elsewhere. We had go trouble getting food 
and shelter at the farmhouses along the way until we finally 
reached Selma. With us were an elderly lady and gentleman, 
whose names I do not recall. 

At Selma I passed my sixth birthday. There I heard for the 
first time of Fenner's battery, but I afterwards heard it spoken 
of so many times that I thought everybody knew of it. In 
Selma my father was taken sick, and was relieved from active 
service for a short time and sent to Demopolis as provost marshal. 
For a time we stayed with a Mrs. Lattimore, whom I well 
remember calling "Mrs. Latticeworks." But my being ordered to 
the front, we separated and I did not see him again until the 
next year. From Demopolis my mother and I went to Mobile. 
I do not recall where we took the train, but I remember that we 
slept on iron rails during the trip. At Mobile we embarked for 
Montgomery on a steamer, which I was told was loaded with 
gunpowder. I remember distinctly that the doors of the state- 
rooms were left open to facilitate the escape of the passengers, 
should anything happen. At Montgomery I saw snow for the 
first time. 

Next, we went to Cahaba, Alabama, which was then a flourish- 
ing place, and I was told that it had been the capital of Alabama, 
but I believe is now totally abandoned. We then went to Gaines- 
ville, Alabama, arriving there, as near as I can recall, in the 



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winter of 1863. We remained there until just after the presi- 
dential election of 1868, when we returned to New Orleans, 
permanently to reside. Several times my father came over for 
a day or two. He surrendered at Meridian and soon thereafter 
came home to Gainesville. I have no recollection of hearing any- 
think said about the fall of Vicksburg, nor of the surrender of 
General Lee, nor of the assassination of President Lincoln, but I 
remember hearing people talk of the fall of Port Hudson, which 
occurred soon after the fall of Vicksburg, either while I was at 
Demopolis or Gainesville. While living in Gainesville, when it 
was expected that Mobile w^as about to fall, there was estab- 
lished in our house a printing office, where a newspaper was 
published by the owners of some paper in Mobile. After the 
supply of paper they had brought with them was exhausted, and 
the small amount that was in the town had been used, they began 
to publish their newspaper on wall paper and kept it up until the 
end of the war. The poem by George McKnight, who wrote 
under the nom de plume of "Asa Hartz," beginning, 

"My love reposes on a rosewood frame, 
A bunk have I" : 

was published in one of these wall-paper editions. 

Gainesville before the war, and during the war, was a flourish- 
ing town, and a great shipping point. The boat trade on the 
Tombigbee river to Alobile on the south, and Columbus on the 
north, was very large, and I saw many boats on its waters during 
the war, but I can recall the names of only two of them — the 
"Admiral" and the "Jefferson Davis." There were many large 
stores there, and a short railroad connected the town with the 
Mobile and Ohio Railroad at a place called Gainesville Junction; 
but this track has since been torn up, the river trade has disap- 
peared, and the glories of Gainesville are no more. The place 
was frequently visited by large bodies of Confederate troops, 
and many times prisoners were brought in to be taken to other 
points for exchange or confinement. 

At one time there occurred what was called by the people, 
"Grayson's Raid," though the name of the leader of the raid was 
General Grierson. I think he was from Missouri, and have read 



A Boy's Recollection of the War — Hart. 153 

that he died recently. I remember the cloud of dust as the cavalry 
came into the little town. They did not stay very long, because, I 
suppose, they were afraid of the Confederate troops which were in 
the neighborhood. They burned the telegraph office, tore up part 
of the railroad tracks, and carried off all the horses they could 
find. As far as I can remember, no damage was done to private 
property. But I recall that several times afterwards, when it 
was reported that the raiders were coming back, we buried all 
our silverware in the yard, as many other families did. 

For many years prior to his death, about twelve years ago, 
there lived in New Orleans a lawyer, Judge Heidenhain by name, 
who had served in the Union army. I became very intimate with 
him, and on my telling him some of my war experiences in con- 
versation one day, I found that he had been one of the raiders. 
A great many Confederate soldiers surrendered at Gaiensville 
at the end of the war, and some of them are now living in New 
Orleans. Among them is the venerable Confederate chaplain. 
Rev. A. Gordon Bakewell, who was also, as he told me some days 
ago, on the same train on which my mother and I left the city. 
A large Federal garrison was established in Gainesville after the 
war, and remained there for many months. It was not long after 
the surrender before United States money again became current 
in the little town. A good many of the stores, particularly the 
large store of Russell & Dunlap, which I well remember on Main 
street, had a large stock of goods, and the sale of this stock and 
of the country produce to the soldiers kept the town moving. 
In addition to that. Col. R. G. McMahon, proprietor of the 
American Hotel, and one of the leading citizens of the State, 
issued a "shinplaster" currency which circulated freely, and, I 
believe, every dollar of it was redeemed. 

Soon after the war, my father returned to New Orleans to 
see if he could find anything of what he had left behind ; because 
when my mother and I went out of the house, on Camp near 
Jackson street, which is still standing, we, like many others, left 
as if for a visit and took nothing with us except some clothing. 
But, of course, everything had disappeared. All that he recovered 
was a few family pictures, one of them of my father, which was 



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taken just about the time I was born, and of which I am still the 
happy possessor. 

He was absent on the Fourth of July, 1865, and on that day 
the Federal officers in the town gave a grand dinner, and little 
boy that I was, they had me there. I feel compelled to say 
that I was always a great favorite with the soldiers of both 
armies, and this invitation resulted from that fact. When my 
father returned, and found out that his only child, on the Fourth 
of July, of all days, had taken dinner with "Yankee" soldiers, 
as all called them at that time, I recall that he cried like a baby. 
But, of course, long before his death, which occurred in Decem- 
ber, 1907, he felt, as do all true Southerners, that the Union sol- 
dier is entitled to just as much credit for what he did, as the 
Confederate soldier. Many a time I saw wounded and sick sol- 
diers brought into Gainesville, and I saw enough and heard 
enough of the horrors of war never to want to see another 
conflict. 

In 1867 my mother and myself returned to New Orleans for a 
short visit, and, of course, things in a big city were quite a revela- 
tion to me, for I had little memory of the city before the war; 
and I was certainly very glad to return to New Orleans, in 1868, 
to permanently reside. Since then I have been almost around the 
world, and I have said many times that I wanted to go back to 
Gainesville to see the place, but I have never been able to get 
there, though only a short distance away. My esteemed friend, 
Mr. W. S. Benedict, an eminent lawyer of New Orleans, who died 
a few years ago, told me that he was born in Gainesville ; so he 
and I had planned a trip together to the old town ; but he died, 
and I could not get there, and perhaps never will. 

While I feel that the foregoing account cannot prove of much 
interest, it has been a pleasant task for me to write it. I have 
often intended to do so, and I am glad of the opportunity which 
now presents itself. What I have stated represents entirely 

personal recollections. I could add much more if I was to put 
in my impressions, or what was told to me by others ; but, as you 
will see, I have confined myself entirely to personal recollections, 
and they may have some value, as representing the part of the 
war which a little fellow saw. 



COMPLETE CONTENTS OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE MIS- 
SISSIPPI HISTORICAL SOCIETY, ARRANGED 
BY VOLUMES. 

Contents of Volume I. 

I. Mississippi's "Backwood's Poet," by Prof. Dabney Lipscomb. 2. 
Mississippi as a Field for the Student of Literature, by Prof. W. L. 
Weber. _ 3. Suffrage in Mississippi, by Hon. R. H. Thompson. 4. Spanish 
Policy in Mississippi after the Treaty of San Lorenzo, by Franklin L. 
Riley. 5. Time and Place Relations in History with some Mississippi 
and Louisiana Applications, by Prof. Henry E. Chambers. 6. The 
Study and Teaching of History, by Prof. Herbert B. Adams. 7. Some 
Facts in the Early History of Mississippi, by Prof. R. W. Jones. 8. 
Prehistoric Jasper Ornaments in Mississippi, by Chan. R. B. Fulton. 
9. Sgugestions to Local Historians, by Prof. Franklin L. Riley. 10. 
Some Inaccuracies in Claiborne's History in Regard to Tecumseh, by 
Mr. H. S. Halbert. 11. Did Jones County Secede? by Prof. A. L. Bondu- 
rant. 12. Index. 

Contents of Volume II. 

I. The Historical Element in Recent Southern Literature, by Prof. C. 
Alphonso Smith. 2. Irwin Russell — First Fruits of the Southern Ro- 
mantic Movement, by Prof. W. L. Weber. 3. William Ward, a Missis- 
sippi Poet Entitled to Distinction, by Prof. Dabney Lipscomb. 4. 
Sherwood Bonner, Her Life and Place in Literature of the South, by 
Prof. A. L. Bondurant. 5. "The Daughter of the Confederacy," Her 
Life, Character and Writings, by Prof. C. C. Ferrell. 6. Sir William 
Dunbar, the Pioneer Scientist of Mississippi, by Prof. Franklin L. Riley. 
7. History of Taxation in Mississippi, by Prof. C. H. Brough. 8. Terri- 
torial Growth of Mississippi, by Prof. J. M. White. 9. Early Slave Laws 
of Mississippi, by Alfred H. Stone, Esq. 10. Federal Courts, Judges, At- 
torneys and Marshals of Mississippi, by T. M. Owen, Esq. 11. Running 
Mississippi's South Line, by Peter J. Hamilton, Esq. 12. Elizabeth 
Female Academy — The mother of Female Colleges, by Bishop Chas. B. 
Galloway. 13. Early History of Jefferson College, by Mr. J. K. Morrison. 
14. The Rise and Fall of Negro Rule in Mississippi, by Dunbar Rowland, 
Esq. 15. Glimpses of the Past, by Mrs. H. D. Bell. 16. Historic Adams 
County, by Gerard C. Brandon, Esq. I7- The Historical Opportunity of 
Mississippi, by Prof. R. W. Jones. 18. Nanih Waiya, the Sacred Mound 
of the Choctaws, by H. S. Halbert, Esq. 19. Index. 

Contents of Volume III. 

I. Report of the Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting. 2. The 
Campaign of Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1863 — from April 15th to and 
including the Battle of Champion Hills, or Baker's Creek, May i6th, 
1863, by Gen. Stephen D. Lee. 3. Siege of Vicksburg, by Gen. Stephen D. 
Lee. 4. The Black and Tan Convention, by Col. J. L. Power. 5. Plantation 
Life in Mississippi Before the War, by Dunbar Rowland, Esq. 6. Private 
Letters of Mrs. Humphreys, Written Immediately before and after the 
Ejectment of Her Husband from the Executive Mansion, by Mrs. Lizzie 
George Henderson. 7. Importance of the Local History of the Civil War, 
by Mrs. Josie F. Cappleman. 8. William C. Falkner, Novelist, by Prof. 
A. L. Bondurant. 9. James D. Lynch, Poet Laureate of the World's 
Columbian Exposition, by Prof. Dabney Lipscomb. 10. Bishop Otey as 
Provincial Bishop of Mississippi, by Rev. Arthur Howard Noll. 11. 
Richard Curtis in the Country of the Natchez, by Rev. Chas. H. Otken. 



ii Mississippi Historical Society. 

12. The Making of a State, by Miss Mary V. Duval. 13. Location of the 
Boundaries of Mississippi, by Franklin L. Riley, Ph. D. 14. Report of 
Sir William Dunbar to the Spanish Government, at the Conclusion of His 
Services in Locating and Surveying the Thirty-first Degree of Latitude. 

15. A Historical Outline of the Geological and Agricultural Survey of the 
State of Mississippi, by Eugene W. Hilgard, Ph. D. 16. History of the 
Application of Science to Industry in Mississippi, by A. M. Muckenfuss, 
Ph. D. 17. William Charles Cole Claiborne, by Prof. H. E. Chambers. 
18. Transition from Spanish to American Control in Mississippi, by Frank- 
lin L. Riley, Ph. D. 19. Grenada and Neighboring Towns in the 30's, by 
Capt. L. Lake. 20. History of Banking in Mississippi, by Charles Hill- 
man Brough, Ph. D. 21. Origin and Location of the A. & M. College of 
Mississippi, by Prof. J. M. White 22. Funeral Customs of the Choctaws, 
by Mr. H. S. Halbert. 23. Danville's Map of East Mississippi, by Mr. 
H. S. Halbert. 24. Index. 

Contents of Volume IV. 

I. Report of the Fourth Annual Meeting, April 18-19, 1901, by Dr. 
Franklin L. Riley. 2. Campaign of Generals Grant and Sherman against 
Vicksburg in December, 1862, and January ist and 2d, 1863, known as 
the "Chickasaw Bayou Campaign," by Gen. Stephen D. Lee. 3. Sher- 
man's Meridian Expedition from Vicksburg to Meridian, February 3d to 
March 6th, 1863, by Gen. Stephen D. Lee. 4. Capture of Holly Springs, 
December 20, 1862, by Prof. J. G. Deupree. 5. Battle of Corinth and Sub- 
sequent Retreat, by Col. James Gordon. 6. Work of the United Daugh- 
ters of the Confederacy, by Mrs. Albert G. Weems. 7. Local Incidents of 
the War Between the States, by Mrs. Josie Frazee Cappleman. 8. The 
First Struggle Over Secession in Mississippi, by Mr. Jas. W. Garner. 9. 
Reconstruction in East and Southeast Mississippi, by Capt. W. H. Hardy. 
10. Legal Status of Slaves in Mississippi before the War, by W. W. Ma- 
gruder, Esq. 11. Mississippi's Constitution and Statutes in Reference to 
Freedmen and Their Alleged Relation to the Reconstruction Acts and 
War Amendment, by A. H. Stone, Esq. 12. History of Millsaps College, 
by Pres. W. B. Murrah. 13. Lorenzo Dow in Mississippi, by Bishop C. B. 
Galloway. 14. Early Beginnings of Baptists in Mississippi, by Rev. Z. 
T. Leavell. 15. Importance of Archaeology, by Peter J. Hamilton, Esq. 

16. The Choctaw Creation Legend, by H. S. Halbert, Esq. 17. Last In- 
dian Council on the Noxubee, by H. S. Halbert, Esq. 18. The Real Philip 
Nolan, by Rev. Edward Everett Hale. 19. Letter from George Poindex- 
ter to Felix Huston, Esq. 20. The History of a County, by Mrs. Helen 
D. Bell. 21. Recollections of Poineer Life in Mississippi, by Miss Mary J. 
Welsh. 22. Political and Parliamentary Orators and Oratory in Missis- 
sippi, by Dunbar Rowland, Esq. 23. The Chevalier Bayard of Missis- 
sippi — Edward Gary Walthall, by Miss Mary Duval. 24. Life of Gen. 
John A. Quitman, by Mrs. Rosalie Q. Duncan. 25. T. A. S. Adams, Poet, 
Educator and Pulpit Orator, by Prof. Dabney Lipscomb. 26. Influence of 
the Mississippi River upon the Early Settlement of Its Valley, by Richard 
B. Houghton, Esq. 27. The Mississippi Panic of 1813, by Col. J. A. Wat- 
kins. 28. Repudiation of the Union and Planter's Bank Bonds, by Judge 
J. A. P. Campbell. 29. Index. 

Contents of Volume V. 

I. Administrative Report of the Mississippi Historical Commission. 2. 
An Account of Manuscripts, Papers and Documents Pertaining to Mis- 
sissippi in Public Repositories Beyond the State: (i) Foreign Archives, 
by Peter J. Hamilton, Esq. (2) Federal Archives, by Thomas M. Owen, 



Contents of Volumes I-XII. iii 

Esq. (3) State Archives, by Franklin L. Riley, Ph. D. (4) Libraries and 
Societies, by Prof. James M. White. 3. An Account of Manuscripts, 
Papers and Documents in PubHc Repositories Within the State of Mis- 
sissippi : (i) State Officers, by Franklin L. Riley, Ph. D. (2) County 
Officers, by Prof. James M. White and Franklin L. Riley, Ph. D. (3) 
Municipal Officers, by Prof. J. M. White and Franklin L. Riley, Ph. D. 
(4) Federal Offices, by Franklin L. Riley, Ph. D. (5) Educational Insti- 
tutions. (6) Church Organizations. (7) Professional, Literary and In- 
dustrial Organizations, by Prof. James M. White. (8) Benevolent and 
Miscellaneous Associations. (9) Libraries and Societies, by Prof. James 
M. White and Franklin L. Riley, Ph. D. 4. An Account of Manuscripts, 
Papers and Documents in Private Hands: (i) Papers of Prominent Mis- 
sissippians, by Prof. James M. White. (2) Private Collectors and Stu- 
dents, by Franklin L. Riley, Ph. D. (3) Newspapers, by Prof. James M. 
White. (4) War Records, by Franklin L. Riley, Ph. D. 5. Aborigina' 
and Indian History: (i) Published Accounts of Prehistoric Remains, by 
Mr. H. S. Halbert and Capt. A. J. Brow^n. (2) Small Indian Tribes of 
Mississippi, by Mr. H. S. Halbert. 6. Points and Places of Historic 
Interest in Mississippi: (i) Extinct Towns and Villages of Mississippi, 
by Franklin L. Riley, Ph. D. (2) Battlefields. 7- Index. 

Contents of Volume VI. 

I. Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Historical 
Society, by Dr. Franklin L. Riley. 2. Report of the Secretary and Treas- 
urer, 1898-1902, by Dr. Franklin L. Riley. 3. Battle of Price's Cross 
Roads, by Gen. Stephen D. Lee. 4. Battle of Harrisburg, or Tupelo, by 
General Stephen D. Lee. 5. The Clinton Riot, by Dr. Charles Hillman 
Brough. 6. Conference between Gen. George and Gov. Ames, by Hon. 
Frank Johnston. 7. Mississippi's First Constitution and Its Makers, by 
Dunbar Rowland, Esq. 8. Secession Convention of i860, by Judge 
Thomas H. Woods. 9. Causes and Events that Led to the Calling of the 
Constitutional Convention of 1890. by Judge S. S. Calhoon. 10. Peniten- 
tiar}'- Reform in Mississippi, by Hon. J. H. Jones, it. History of the 
Measures Submitted to the Committee on Elective Franchise, Appor- 
tionment and Elections in the Constitutional Convention of 1890, by 
Hon. J. S. McNeilly. 12. Suffrage and Reconstruction in Mississippi, by 
Hon. Frank Johnston. 13. Some Historic Homes in Mississippi, bv Mrs. 
N. D. Deupree. 14. Early Times in Wayne County, by Hon. J. M. Wil- 
kins. 15. Industrial Mississippi in the Light of the Twelfth Census, by 
Dr. A. M. Muckenfuss. 16. The Mississippi River and the Efforts to Con- 
fine it in its Channel, by Maj. Wm. Dunbar Jenkins. 17. Origm of the 
Pacific Railroads, and Especially of the Southern Pacific, by Hon. Ed- 
ward Mayes. 18. The Origin of Certain Place Names in the State of 
Mississippi, by Mr. Henry Gannett. 19. The Catholic Church in Mis- 
sissippi During Colonial Times, by Rev. B. J. Bekkers. 20. Robert J. 
Walker, by Geo. J. Leftwich, Esq. 21. Story of the Treaty of Dancing 
Rabbit, by Mr. H. S. Halbert. 22. The Yowanne, or Hiowanni Indians, 
by Peter J. Hamilton, Esq. 23. Location and Description of Emmaus 
Mission, by Mr. John H. Evans. 24. Benard Romans' Map of 1772, by 
Mr. H. S.' Halbert. 25. Antiquities of Newton County, by Caot. A. J. 
Brown. 26. Route of DeSoto's Expedition from Taliepacana to Huhasene, 
by Prof. T. H. Lewis. 2-]. Report of the Department of Archives and 
History, by Dunbar Rowland, Esq. 28. Index. 

Contents of Volume VII. 

I. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Missi'^sippi Histori- 
cal Society, by Dr. Franklin L. Riley. 2. The Rank and File at Vicks- 



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burg, by Col. J. H. Jones. 3. A Mississippi Brigade in the Last Days of 
the Confederacy, by Hon. J. S. McNeilly. 4. Yazoo County in the Civil 
War, by Judge Robert Bowman. 5. Johnson's Division in the Battle of 
Franklin, by Gen. Stephen D. Lee. 6. Reminiscences of Service with the 
First Mississippi Cavalry, by Prof. J. G. Deupree. 7. Makeshifts of the 
War Between the States, by Miss Mary J. Welsh. 8. Reconstruction in 
Yazoo County, by Judge Robert Bowman. 9. Life of Col. Felix Lebauve. 
by Dr. P. H. Saunders. 10. Life of Greenwood Leflore, by Mrs. N. D. 
Deupree. 11. Thomas Griffin — a Boanerges of the Early Southwest, by 
Bishop Chas. B. Galloway. 12. Lafayette Rupert Hamberlin, Dramatic 
Reader and Poet, by Prof. P. H. Eager. 13. Recollections of Recon- 
struction in East and Southeast Mississippi, by Capt. W. H. Harriy. 
14. Life of Col. J. F. H. Claiborne, by Dr. Franklin L. Riley. 15. Sena- 
torial Career of Gen. J. Z. George, by J. W. Garner. 16. Cotton Gin Port 
and Gaines' Trace, by Geo. J. Leftwich, Esq. 17. The Cholera in 1840, by 
Maj. Wm. Dunbar Jenkins. 18. Historic Clinton, by Dr. Charles Hill- 
man Brough. 19. LaCache, by Rev. Ira M. Boswell. 20. Some Historic 
Homes in Mississippi, by Mrs. N. D. Deupree. 21. Choctaw Mission 
Station in Jasper County, by Capt. A. J. Brown. 22. Lowndes County, 
Its Antiquities and Pioneer Settlers, by Col. Wm. A. Love. 23. Mingo 
Moshulitubbee's Prairie Village, by Col. Wm. A. Love. 24. The Chroni- 
clers of DeSoto's Expedition, by Prof. T. H. Lewis. 25. Origin of 
Mashulaville, by Mr. H. S. Halbert. 26. British West Florida, by Peter 
J. Hamilton, Esq. 27. The Floods of the Mississippi, by John W. Monette. 

28. Navigation and Commerce on the Mississippi, by John W. Monette. 

29. Index. 

Contents of Volume VIII. 



I. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Mississippi His- 
torical Society, by Dr. Franklin L. Riley. 2. Alleged Secession of Jones 
County, by Mr. Goode Montgomery. 3. Index to Campaigns, Battles and 
Skirmishes in Mississippi from 1861 to 1865, by General Stephen D. Lee. 
4. A Sketch of the Career of Company B, Armistead's Cavalry Regiment, 
by Judge R. C. Beckett. 5. Details of Important Work of Two Confeder- 
ate Telegraph Operators, etc., by General Stephen D. Lee. 6. The Hamp- 
ton Roads Conference, by Hon. Frank Johnston. 7. Some Unpublished 
Letters of Burton N. Harrison, by Prof. James Elliott Walmsley. 8. 
Confederate Cemeteries and Monuments in Mississippi,^ by Dr. R. W. 
Jones. 9. The Confederate Orphans' Home of Mississippi, by Miss Mary 
J. Welsh. 10. Recollections of Reconstruction in East and Southeast 
Mississippi, by Captain W. H. Hardy. 11. Reconstruction in Wilkinson 
County, Col., by J. H. Jones. 12. Some Effects of Military Reconstruction 
in Monroe County, by Judge R. C. Beckett. 13. Life of Hon. James T. 
Harrison, by Judge J. A. Orr. 14. The Public Services of Senator James 
Z. George, by Hon. Frank Johnston. 15. The Ante-Bellum Historical 
Society of Mississippi, by Rev. Z. T. Leavell. 16. Mississippi's Primary 
Election Law, by Hon. E. F. Noel. I7- A Note on Mississippi's Popula- 
tion, 1850-1860, by Mr. Edward Ingle. 18. The Cotton Oil Industry, by 
Mr. W^. D. Shue. 19. The State of Louisiana versus the State of Mis- 
sissippi, by Hon. Monroe McClurg. 20. Cartography of Mississippi in 
the i6th Century, by Mr. William Beer. 21. Choctaw Land Claims, by 
Dr. Franklin L. Riley. 22. The Removal of the Mississippi Choctaws, by 
Mr. J. W. Wade. 23. Early History and Archaeology of Yazoo County, 
by Judge Robert Bowman. 2X Autobiography of Gideon Lincecum. 25. 
Choctaw Traditions About Their Settlement in Mississippi and the 
Origin of Their Mounds, by Dr. Gideon Lincecum. 26. Chickasaw Tradi- 
tions, Customs, etc., by Mr'. Harry Warren. 27. Some Chickasaw Chiefs 



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and Prominent Men, by Mr. Harry Warren. 28. Missions, Missionaries, 
Frontier Characters and Schools, by Mr. Harry Warren. 29. Index. 

Contents of Volume IX. 

I. Proceedings of Eighth Public Meeting of the Mississippi Historical 
Societ}', by Dr. Franklin L. Riley. 2. A Forgotten Expedition to Pen- 
sacola in January, 1861, by Judge Baxter McFarland. 3. Mississippi at 
Gettysburg, by Col. William A. Love. 4. Reconstruction in Monroe 
County, by Hon. George J. Leftwich. 5. Reconstruction and its De- 
struction in Hinds County, by Hon. W. C. Wells. 6. The Enforcement 
Act of 1871 and The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi, by Hon. J. S. McNeilly. 

7. A Trip from Houston to Jackson, Miss., in 1845, by Judge J. A. Orr. 

8. The Presidential Campaign of 1844 in Mississippi, by Prof. J. E. Walms- 
ley. 9. Life and Literary Services of Dr. John W. Monette, by Dr. 
Franklin L. Riley. 10. The Public Services of E. C. Walthall, by Prof. 
Alfred W. Garner. 11. Monroe's Efforts in Behalf of the Mississippi 
Valley During His Mission to France, by Dr. Beverly W. Bond. 12. A 
Sketch of the Old Scotch Settlement at Union Church, by Rev. C. W. 
Grafton. 13. Lancl^ of the Liquidating Levee Board through Litigation 
and Legislation, by Mr. J. W. Wade. 14. Historic Localities on Noxubee 
River, by William A. Love. 15. "A Genuine Account of the Present 
State of the River Mississippi," etc.. Anonymous. 16. A Contribution to 
the History of the Colonization Movement in Mississippi, by Dr. Frank- 
lin L. Riley. 17. Life of Apushimataha, by Gideon Lincecum. 18. Trip 
Through the Piney Woods, by Col. J. F. H. Claiborne. 19. A Brief His- 
tory of the Mississippi Territory, by James Hall. 20. Index. 

Contents of Volume X. 

I. Proceedings of Decennial Meeting of the Mississippi Historical So- 
ciety, by Prof. Franklin L. Riley. 2. General Stephen D. Lee; His Life, 
Character and Services, by Prof. Dabney Lipscomb. 3. The Work of the 
Mississippi Historical Society, by Prof. Franklin L. Riley. 4. The War in 
Mississippi after the Fall of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863, by Gen. Stephen D. 
Lee. 5. The Vicksburg Campaign, by Hon. Frank Johnson. 6. The 
Tupelo Campaign, by Capt. Theodore G. Carter. 7. Reconstruction in 
Carroll and Montgomery Counties, by Mr. Fred M. Witty 8. Recon- 
struction in Lee County, by Mr. W. H. Braden. 9. Reconstruction in 
Attalla County, by Mr. E. C. Coleman, Jr. 10. The Development of 
Manufacturing in Mississippi, by Prof. A. M. Muckenfuss. 11. History 
of Prohibition in Mississippi, by Col. W. H. Patton. 12. Beginnings of 
Presbyterianism in Mississippi, by Rev. T. L. Haman. 13. A Chapter in 
the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878, by Mrs. W. A. Anderson. 14. Aaron 
Burr in Mississippi, by Bishop Charles B. Galloway. 15. Jefferson Davis 
at West Point, by Prof. Walter L. Fleming. 16. Henry Lowndes Mul- 
drow, by Hon. George J. Leftwich. 17. History of Port Gibson, Missis- 
sippi, by Rev. H. G. Hawkins. 18. Yazoo County's Contribution to Mis- 
sissippi Literature, by Judge Robt. Bowman. 19. Biographical Sketch 
of Dr. M. W. Phillips, by Prof. Franklin L. Riley. 20. Diary of a Mis- 
sissippi Planter, by Prof. Franklin L. Riley. 21. Complete Contents of 
Volumes I-X of the Publications of Mississippi Historical Society, 
Topically Arranged. 22. Author's Index to Volumes I-X of the Publica- 
tions of the Mississippi Historical Society, Alphabetically Arranged. 
23. Complete Contents of the Publications of the Mississippi Historical 
Society. Arranged by Volumes. 24. General Index of Volumes I-X of 
Publications of Mississippi Historical Society. 



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Contents of Volume XI. 

I. Proceedings of the Tenth Public Meeting of the Mississippi His- 
torical Society, by Prof. Franklin L. Riley. 2. Charles Betts Galloway, 
by Hon. Edward Mayes. 3. The Mississippi River as a Political Factor 
in American History, by Prof. Franklin L. Riley. 4. Demarcation of the 
Mississippi-Louisiana Boundarj', by Prof. Franklin L. Riley. 5. Evolu- 
tion of Wilkinson County, by Col. J. H. Jones. 6. Antebellum Times in 
Monroe County, by Judge R. C. Beckett. 7. Reconstruction in Monroe 
County, by Mr. E. F. Puckett. 8. Reconstruction in Lawrence and 
Jeflferson Davis Counties, by Miss Hattie Magee. 9. Reconstruction in 
Newton County, by Miss Ruth Watkins. 10. Reconstruction in Pon- 
totoc County, by Mr. M. G. Abney. 11. Reconstruction in Leake County, 
by Miss Nannie Lacey. 12. Reconstruction in DeSoto County, by Prof. 
Irby C. Nichols. 13. Beginning of a New Period in the Political His- 
tory of Mississippi, by Prof. G. H. Brunson. 14. The French Trading 
Post and the Chocchuma Village in East Mississippi, by Mr. H. S. 
Halbert. 15. David Ward Sanders, by Gov. E. F. Noel. 16. Marking the 
Natchez Trace, by Mrs. Dunbar Rowland. 17. The Mayhew Mission to 
the Choctaws, by Col. W. A. Love. 18. General Jackson's Military Road, 
by Col. W. A. Love. 19. Index. 



Contents of Volume XII. 



I. Proceedings of the Eleventh Public Meeting of the Mississippi His- 
torical Society, by Dr. Franklin L. Riley. 2. First Marriage of Jefferson 
Davis, by Dr. Walter L. Fleming. 3. Nullification in Mississippi, by Miss 
Cleo Hearon. 4. Did the Reconstruction Give Mississippi Her Public 
Schools? by Miss Elise Timberlake. 5. The Civil War Hospital at the 
University, by Mrs. J. C. Johnson. 6. Autobiographical Sketch of Dr. 
F. A. P. Barnard. 7. Sketches of Judge A. B. Longstreet and Dr. 
F. A. P. Barnard, by Dr. J. W. Johnson. 8. A Boy's Recollection of the 
War, by Hon. W. O. Hart. 9. Reconstruction in Marshall County, by 
Miss Ruth Watkins. 10. Reconstruction in Yalobusha and Grenada 
Counties, by Miss J. C. Brown. 11. Climax and Collapse of Reconstruc- 
tion in Mississippi, 1874-1896, by Capt. J. S. McNeilly. 12. Index. 

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